email: koeler@emory.edu

On sabbatical 2008/2009

2000. PhD (Comparative Literature), Yale University.

Karla Oeler's teaching and research interests include classical and contemporary film theory and aesthetics.

Current Project:
The Surface of Things: Cinema and the Fate of Interiority

Selected Writing:
A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form (book ms under submission)

“Colour of Pomegranates” for The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, ed. Birgit Beumers, Wallflower Press, forthcoming November 2006.

“A Collective Interior Monologue: Sergei Parajanov and Eisenstein’s Joyce-Inspired Vision of Cinema.” Modern Language Review 101.2 (April 2006).

“The Dead Wives in the Dead House: Narrative Inconsistency and Genre Confusion in Dostoevskii’s Autobiographical Prison Novel.” Slavic Review 61:3, Fall 2002.